What is the difference between spanish and mexican food?!
Friendly World Traveller, (Once to Spain, 6 times to Mexico)
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Answers: Spanish food is very European where as Mexican food is more related to the horrible Tex Mex you get in the states. In true Spanish food, you will not find tortillas made with corn, but torillas that are delicious egg and potato omelets served cold. Spansih food is usualy more subtle in flavor while Mexican food is mroe earthy and has a myriad of flavors, but one cannot really put such a loose nomenclature on these cuisines, they both have so many reginaol differences.
Friendly World Traveller, (Once to Spain, 6 times to Mexico)
Foresty D> bynum
the spelling...?
no i dunno in mexico
it was mostly meat with no pitas
from wut i remember
meat and beans on a plate
A lot.
They share a common language but the food is quite a bit different. Just a few examples would be:
Mexicans use corn as the most popular grain whereas Spain it would be wheat or rice. The use of Chili in the cooking is unique to Mexico. Spain has a European influence whereas Mexico has more of a South American influence.
There are many many other differences (too many to list here)
Spanish would be a mixture of cuisine from Spain with European and Moor influences. While Mexican food combines Spanish cuisine with indigenous cuisines. That is why in Mexican food corn (indigenous food) plays a big part while in Spanish food it does not. Hope this helps.
the Mexicans use more fat, meat, greece etc.........
so that's the deference between them
All I know is my husbands great grand mother is from The Spanish side and her recipes are far tastier than "mexican" food.
Consider the trade between America, Mexico and Spain
IS ...???? 500 years + ???
Today I can not imagine any real difference.. All the vegetables native on this Continent are now grown throughout Europe and beyond..and visa versa
Mexican food uses many "peasant" type ingredients that are native to the US. Black beans and rice, squash and squash blossoms, pumpkin and pumpkin seeds, corn smut(cuitlacoche), cactis, flour and corn tortillas, with a little beef, pork and chicken in there.
Spanish foods often have a lot of seafood, rice and polenta(cooked and chilled cornmeal) They typically use saffron to color their rice. Tapas are a type of food you can get often. They are little snack meals that they give you when you get a drink. They are on little plates used for lids--"tapas" the plates keep bugs from getting into the food.
Spanish from Spain
Mexican from Mexico
...my best guess.
mexican food is more spicy